Was former GM's wife tweeting in response to Redskins president?

On Sunday evening at the annual NFL owners meetings in Phoenix, Washington Redskins president Bruce Allen finally spoke with reporters about various issues that have been plaguing the team this offseason.

The status of a long-term deal with the quarterback Kirk Cousins and the termination of general manager Scot McCloughan were high on the list of media questions. Allen gave assurances that Cousins was in the team’s future. He said McCloughan was fired to provide “clarity” and that the good of the team was his responsibility.

This perhaps not what the former GM’s wife took away from Allen’s comments, however, and Jessica McCloughan took to Twitter … maybe … to announce what she did get from them.

2) Mrs. McCloughan to comment via Twitter on the team’s actions or words when they affected her husband.

When reports surfaced that McCloughan had been asked to leave Ashburn during Senior Bowl week, his wife tweeted that the report was not true. She corroborated a tweet by The Washington Post’s Mike Jones that he had been told that her husband had left to take care of family matters.

Those earlier tweets have been taken down from the account, but one that she tweeted during all the speculation about where the GM was is still there: